Automated Single-Use Code Injection to Prevent Spoilage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Single-use codes often expire without being used in intended interactions, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for both users and entities offering these codes.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that modify a user interface to automatically inject single-use codes into relevant interactions, ensuring their use only when a user completes an intended action, thereby reducing code spoilage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If single-use codes are provided to users for completion of interactions, then users can access offers and incentives, but the codes may expire without being used resulting in spoilage
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by monitoring the user session and detecting completion of required interactions before the code expires. The automated injection mechanism is prepared in advance and executes only when the completion event is detected, ensuring the code is used at the optimal moment rather than relying on user initiative.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the monitoring and automated injection system) between the user and the code redemption process. This intermediary detects interaction completion and automatically injects the code, mediating between the user's incomplete action and the code's expiration to ensure successful redemption.
2Loss of energy
If single-use codes are automatically injected into interactions, then code spoilage is reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple functions into a unified monitoring and injection platform that can handle various types of interactions (purchases, sign-ups, form completions) across different contexts. This multi-functional approach reduces overall system complexity compared to implementing separate solutions for each interaction type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically monitoring session completion events and injecting codes without requiring manual intervention or complex user workflows. The automated detection and injection process eliminates the need for additional interface elements or user training.
3Loss of time
If the system monitors electronic sessions to detect completion actions, then code injection timing is optimized, but the processing time and resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial monitoring by focusing only on specific completion events that are relevant to code redemption, rather than analyzing all user actions. This selective approach reduces processing overhead while still capturing the necessary completion signals for timely code injection.
Data Source
AI summary
A procedure for modifying a user interface may include causing a first application on a user device to monitor an electronic session of a second application on the user device. The first application may determine a characteristic of the electronic session, query an API using the determined characteristic for a relevant single-application code, and receive a response back from the API. The first application may detect an activation of a user interface element associated with completing an interaction on the electronic session. In response to the detection, the first application may interrupt a response of the second application to the activation. During the interruption, the first application may modify the interaction, e.g., by injecting execution of the single-application code into the second application, and then cause the response of the second application to resume with the modified interaction.